RANGER is a premium digital agency focused on balancing the creative and technical needs of tomorrow’s digital products & experiences.

02. TESTIMONIAL

“As a studio of designer’s designers who incidentally focus on the digital realm, RANGER is both a fluid and reassuring team to work with… Know-how + craft alike.”

— John Paul Chirdon, Wolff Olins

03. PARTNERS

04. OUR OFFICE

05. BEN HAYNES, FOUNDER OF RANGER

With a degree in communication-design and over 15 years of independent web development experience, Ben has equal footing in the creative and technical realms. As the founder of RANGER Studio, Ben forefronted this unification of design and development as the guiding ethos driving his company’s success. Working closely with industry-leading agencies, Ben adopted new and effective ways of thinking from partners such as IDEO, 2×4, Wolff Olins, Pentagram, and Interbrand – integrating these new problem-solving strategies into RANGER’s methodologies.

06. CAREERS

Front-End Developer

RANGER is looking for a motivated front-end web developer to join our growing team. Developers will be responsible for building web standards compliant code and work with back-end developers for integration. Be sure to include your resume and links to projects and/or portfolios when applying to this position.

RANGER is looking for a motivated PHP developer to join our growing team. Developers will be responsible for building websites to meet project specifications and expectations. Developers will work alongside interactive designers, front-end developers, and project managers. Be sure to include your resume and links to projects and/or portfolios when applying to this position.

Experience with management and maintenance of LAMP server environments

Effective communication skills

Ability to work and interact with project team

Excellent problem solving skills

Design experience a plus

Computer science degree preferred

Interaction Designer

RANGER is looking for a motivated interaction designer to join our growing team. Designers will be responsible for conceptualizing, creating, and refining interface solutions for websites and work alongside developers and project managers. Be sure to include your resume and links to projects and/or portfolios when applying to this position.

RANGER is looking for passionate students looking to gain experience working on mid-sized web projects. Individuals would be responsible for aiding in the design and creation of websites and would work alongside RANGER designers, developers, and project managers. Be sure to include your resume and links to projects and/or portfolios when applying to this position.

If you'd like a project quote or are looking to partner with RANGER, please email contact@rngr.org

01. WHAT OUR PARTNERS SAY

“As a studio of designer’s designers who incidentally focus on the digital realm, RANGER is both a fluid and reassuring team to work with… Know-how + craft alike.”

— John Paul Chirdon, Wolff Olins

02. OUR SERVICES

Whether taking on visual design for a responsive site or the development of a full-suite ecosystem, we provide the creative and technical solutions essential to your project’s immediate success and long-term scalability.

As a measurement of success, our design approach looks to satisfy each of the project’s individual goals and requirements. We iterate through UX and design revisions collaboratively – each pass sculpting a more polished and intuitive visual system.

A. Divergent ThinkingWithout the limitations of potential feasibility constraints, our design and development teams together begin to compile expansive lists of concepts. We capture any and every idea that comes to light during these sessions, often arriving at innovations through seemingly improbable concept rabbit-holes.

B. Convergent ConceptingOnce we’ve accumulated a mass of divergent ideation, we begin to assess feasibility and hone in on those with the most potential. Factors such as business requirements, cost benefit analysis, and concept overlap all play a role in which abstract ideas advance into the formal design process.

C. Visual IterationWith the finalized concepts in-hand, the design team begins rough sketches. These initial drafts are internally critiqued and improved upon until they’re in a suitable state to be introduced as a core look-and-feel direction. Pixel-perfect mocks are subsequently created and further refined to reach project goals.

D. PrototypingDigital design, however, extends beyond what can be expressed in a static “flat file” – animation, micro-interactions, and responsiveness must also be considered. In parallel to the creative workstream, our front-end developers create prototypes and proof-of-concepts as needed to showcase these more behavioral aspects.

04. DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY

Instead of conforming to a strict methodology company-wide, we choose a workflow that best fits the project — typically balancing rigid linear phases with the nimbleness of more fluid strategies. Throughout this hybrid workflow, we iteratively hone-in on the final, polished deliverables.

05. TYPICAL PHASE OVERLAP

While not always accurate, below is a typical overview of high-level phases and major engagement milestones. Some of these phases may be handled internally by the client or by project partners.

06. NEW BUSINESS

If you'd like a project quote or are looking to partner with RANGER, please email contact@rngr.org

01. SELECT CLIENTS

Partnering with innovative startups, niche boutiques, and industry-leading enterprises alike, our clients share one common trait — vision. Driven by their inspiration, we transform that vision into reality.

02. CASE STUDY – OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

Directus

RANGER has spent the past 9 years concepting, designing, developing, and maintaining this free and open-source client-facing database GUI to serve as a CMS for scalable, custom-schema projects. Its primary advantage over other CMS is that it's completely decoupled from the application code. This allows engineers to create custom database architectures based on specific project needs, design websites and applications without any limitations, and follow any development workflow.

Exemplifying a typical client engagement with RANGER, The Mill website overhaul included a complete data restructuring, creative consulting, and a ground-up responsive website and content administration build. The site was built with several layers of modularity to provide the client with the ability to create granularly tailored layouts within the custom CMS.

After a comprehensive systems audit, it was discovered that for SoulCycle to maintain usability at scale a complete digital infrastructure overhaul would be required. In parallel to building their new e-commerce website, RANGER designed and developed SoulCycle's entire administrative ecosystem from the ground up – including their point-of-sale, internal reporting systems, and class/instructor scheduling.

RANGER developed a dynamic experience wall for the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas to engage visitors and passersby alike. At 9 feet tall by 18 feet wide, this large scale dynamic installation visualizes all the activity going on in the center by using an origami design that is constantly unfolding to reveal new content, repurposed from the PAC website, Twitter, Facebook, and images taken around the center.

As a long-time partner, we’ve worked with Interbrand on numerous client projects, but when the world’s leading brand consultancy asks you to build their own web platform – you can’t help but feel honored. We helped Interbrand envision new possibilities, guided their internal design concepts, and built their new forward-looking web application.

RANGER has worked on many projects with Google over the years, but one of the more open-ended involved generating unexpected concepts for driving engagement for the Google Search App. To successfully bridge the gap between the digital and physical world, RANGER utilized our history of experiential and installation work to produce ideation outside of traditional media channels.

08. CASE STUDY – LAB

Experiments

When a developer at RANGER has an interesting idea that they want to test out without the constraints of polished design or browser compatibility, Experiments is where they build it. RANGER Experiments is our playground for the little bits of code we create for alpha testing or proof-of-concepts. While many components born here are eventually refined enough to graduate into an actual project, some are just fun to play around with.